426 A HANDBOOK OF CONIFERiE 



P. Nelsoni occurs in great abundance over a limited area on 

 the lower slopes of the Sierras of N.E. Mexico. It is not known 

 in cultivation. 



Shaw, Pines of Mexico, 8 (1909). 



Pinus occidentalis, Swartz. 



PiniTS cubensis, Grisebach (not Sargent) ; P. Wrightii, Engelmann, 

 A species allied to P. caribcea, from which it differs in its 

 uninodal shoots, slender leaves which are usually about 6 in. long, 

 and erect young cones. The mature cones are about 2-3 in. long, 

 ovate, symmetrical, refiexed, falling early ; scales nut-brown and 

 shining above with a shallow, recurved prickle'. 



This pine grows naturally in E. Cuba, San Domingo, and 

 Hayti. It is unknown in cultivation. 



Shaw, Genus Pinus, 70 (1914). 



Pinus oocarpa, Schiede. 



Pinus oocarpoides, LincUey ; P. Skinneri, Hort. (not Forbes). 



A tree up to 50 ft. high, with stout branches and a round, 

 compact head of bright green foliage. Young shoots with buds 

 only at the nodes, glaucous. Leaves in threes, fours, or fives, 

 stout, 10-12 in. long, resin ducts mostly septal. Cones broadly 

 ovate to ovate conic, 2-3| in. long, persistent, symmetrical, or 

 oblique, on long, often curved stalks ; scales with the exposed 

 portion greyish or greenish yellow, flat or convex. 



Easily known by its broadly ovate, long-stalked cones. The 

 septal resin-ducts in the leaves are also a distinguishing feature. 



A native of Central America extending through S. and W. 

 Mexico to the boundary between the State of Sinaloa and 

 Sonorar. It is not known in cultivation. 



Shaw, Pines of Mexico, 26 (1909) ; Shaw, Genus Pinus, 11 (1914). 



Pinus palustris, Miller. 

 Long-leaf Pine (America) ; Pitch Pine (Europe). 



Pinus australis, Michaux ; P. georgica, Hort. ; P. longifolia, Salisbury 

 (not Roxburgh) ; P. lutea, Walters (not Loddiges) ; P. Palmeri, Manetti ; 

 P. serotina, Hort. (not Michaux). Broom Pine ; Fat Pine ; Florida 

 Pine ; Florida Long-leaf Pine ; Florida Yellow Pine ; Georgia Pine ; 

 Georgia Heart Pine ; Georgia Long-leaf Pine ; Georgia Pitch Pine ; Heart 

 Pine ; Long-leaf Pitch Pine ; Long-straw Pine ; Rosemary Pine ; Southern 

 Hard Pine ; Southern Heart Pine ; Southern Pitch Pine ; Southern 

 Yellow Pine ; Texas Long-leaf Pine ; Texas Yellow Pine ; Turpentine 

 Pine. 



A tree 80-110 ft. high and 7-9 ft. in girth in America. 

 Branches stout, gnarled, and twisted, up to 20 ft. long, forming a 

 tree of irregular outline. Bark reddish brown, |-| in. thick, 

 fissured and deciduous in thin scales. Young shoots stout, orange- 

 brown, rough with prominent ridges, without down. Winter buds 



